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Rochdale

Rochdale Data

Description

Information on 665 households of Rochdale, Lancashire, UK. The study was conducted to identify influence factors on economical activity of wives.

Usage

data("Rochdale")

Format

A 8-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 665 observations on 8 variables. The variables and their levels are as follows:

No	Name	Levels
1	EconActive	yes, no
2	Age	<38, >38
3	HusbandEmployed	yes, no
4	Child	yes, no
5	Education	yes, no
6	HusbandEducation	yes, no
7	Asian	yes, no
8	HouseholdWorking	yes, no

Note

Many observations are missing: only 91 out of all 256 combinations contain information.

Source

Whittaker (1990).

References

H. Hofmann (2003). Constructing and reading mosaicplots. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 43, 4, 565–580.

J. Whittaker (1990), Graphical Models on Applied Multivariate Statistics, Wiley, New York.

Examples

data("Rochdale")
mosaic(Rochdale)

vcd

Visualizing Categorical Data

v1.4-10

GPL-2

Authors

David Meyer [aut, cre], Achim Zeileis [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0918-3766>), Kurt Hornik [aut], Florian Gerber [ctb], Michael Friendly [ctb]

Initial release